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Marcelo Gomes Steps Into Television to Tackle HIV Epidemic in Brazil With HBO’s ‘Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically’
Johnny Massaro and Bruna Linzmeyer star in Marcelo Gomes's ‘Oxygen Masks will (not) drop automatically’ about smuggling of HIV medication into Brazil
Set in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1980s, “Oxygen Masks Will (not) Drop Automatically” stars Johnny Massaro (“Hidden Truths”) as Nando, a gay flight attendant who, after being diagnosed with HIV at the height of the epidemic, begins smuggling the groundbreaking treatment AZT into his home country despite the drug not being yet approved by local health authorities. Bruna Linzmeyer, who was in Berlin last year with Juliana Rojas “Cidade’ Campo,” co-stars as Nando’s best friend, Léa, dealing with not only her confidante’s diagnosis but an unexpected pregnancy resulting from an affair with a married man. The news of the series having been selected to play in Berlin came at a time when Massaro was “filled with self-doubt” and felt like “a very welcome push to continuing to believe things happen at the right time.” “I know how the Berlinale is a shop window to the world.
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